Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called on people to overcome a “fatal reluctance” to talk about organ donation with relatives, as he launches a major public consultation on plans to introduce a new opt-out system. Figures from NHS Blood and Transplant show that in the […]

The BBC Children in Need Main Grants programme will consider applications requesting grants of over £10,000 to support projects for up to three years. Registered charities and not-for-profit organisations in the UK can apply if they are supporting children and young people of 18 years […]

A new report, Voluntary Sector Action on the Social Determinants of Health, is designed to help charities that do not have a health focus understand the evidence about how their social action improves people’s health. The report, produced by the Institute for Health Equity, developed […]

Google.org and ISD have partnered to award grants of between £2,000 and £200,000. The fund will support innovative projects on and offline that seek to disrupt, undermine, counter or provide positive alternatives to hate and extremism. New partnerships and initiatives from organisations that may have never […]

Aim: This event will bring together those who want to see the NHS built according to God’s pattern. “Their work shows us only a picture of the things in heaven. When Moses was putting up the tent to worship in, God told him, Be sure you […]

The Department of Health and the Department for Education have published a Green Paper, Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision. This sets out the ambition that children and young people who need help for their mental health will be able to get it […]

The Department of Health is carrying out a review into the impacts of recent changes to the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations. These changes have meant that non-exempt overseas visitors are now additionally chargeable for NHS services (other than primary care) when they are […]

Following research with more than 600 people living with a terminal illness or caring for someone at the end of life, Compassion in Dying has published an innovative new booklet: What now? Questions to ask after a terminal diagnosis. What now? is designed to help people ask questions and […]

The November 2017 edition of this monthly newsletter from the Department of Health, NHS England and Public Health England is now available here. If you are interested in health and care news and would like to subscribe to the newsletter, please email HWAlliance@dh.gsi.gov.uk.

Epping Forest District Council are awarding grants of up to £5,000 to organisations involved in providing community work, cultural or sport activities. Organisations eligible for financial assistance include: Local voluntary and community groups Sports clubs Arts and culture groups Trusts Friendly societies Social enterprises Community […]

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